The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-19
Montpelier and Vicinity.

Mr. FRED c. CAMP and family are now
stopping at the Pavilion.
GEORGE Fox has taken the job to run a
circular saw in a mill at Painfeld.
GENERAL II. B. CARRINGToN, U. S. A.,
was registered at the Pavilion yesterday.
A SERVICE of sacred song is to be held in
the Church of the Messiah next Sunday
evening.
FRANK f. II. GARY, of the late firm of
Gordon & Gary, intends to move to Boston
in about ten days.
THE net proceeds of the supper given by
the ladies at Bethany chapel Thursday even
ing were nearly $50.
KING HERR1cK of Middlesex has pur-
chased for his son, w. III. Herrick, the Lucy
Cook house on Liberty street.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT is to conduct
religious services at Wrightsville next Sun
day afternoon at two o'clock.
THE new camp of Sons of Veterans is
starting off under the very best of pros
pects 1t is in tiourishng condition.
n
Armory rink Friday evening at seven o'clock
for the organization of coasting club. 'Tis
well!
T. r. MERRILL, JR., is moving from the
G. A. Sanders house to the tenement in the
southerly end of the Kent house on Elm
street.
PROFESSOR HENRY PRIEST of Canton, n.
Y, formerly principal of Goddard Semin-
ary is visiting with his family, at c. c..
Eaton's.
COLONEL A. 7. DUNToN and family are at
Clear Water Harbor, Fla, this winter. The
announcement will be of interest to Mont
pelier friends
JAMES NJ. BOUTWELL, has bought large
traverse of Edward Wells of Burlington,
and another is thus added to the list of " big
ones " owned in Montpelier.
EAST STATE STREET has been cleared of
the snow which has fallen in such abun-
dance during the past few days and the
double runners" are out again in full
force.
The tenth annual banquet of the Sons of
Pacific Hotel on Monday evening. We ac-
knowledge the receipt of an attractive in
vitation.
MEssRs. BLAKELY & CHENEY, proprietors
of the Vendome" " restaurant on State
street, have failed, and their creditors are
asked to cancel accounts for ten cents on
the dollar.
Ir is expected that the Barre railroad will
be reopened through to Montpelier by next
week, as the work on the bridges between
this point and Barre Junction is very nearly
completed.
The south bound night express train due
in Montpelier at one o'clock Tuesday morn
ing was nearly seven hours late. The de-
lay was caused somewhere north of st.
Albans and was probably owing to the
storm.
j. T.. GooDENoUGH is acting as substitute
mail route messenger of the Wells River
and Montpelier railway post-office during
the temporary absence from service of
Willard Holden, who is afflicted with rheu-
matism.
ter, Mimi, formerly a teacher in the Yer
mont Methodist Seminary and for some
years connected with the Normal School at
Randolph was in Montpelier a short time
last week.
AT the adjourned meeting of Brooks
Post, G.. A. r., held last week Tuesday
evening, Adjutant c. Il. Summers appointed
j. Q. Newton to be sergeant-major, and he
was installed by Past Commander w. f.
Waterman.
THE Board of Agriculture will hold its
meeting for Washington county at Cabot
January 25 and 26. Meetings will also be
held at Randolph Center February 1; West
Randolph, February 2; at Rochester, Feb
ruary and 4.
A BROKEN wheel on one of the cars of No.
3 freight train made bad work with the
track for nearly mile north of Montpelier
Junction Monday afternoon, and the even
ing trains were considerably delayed in con-
sequence of the accident.
A TELEGRAM received by w. A. Lord last
evening from his brother-in-law, William
X. Burleigh of Great Falls, n. H., an
nounced that his wife, Mary A, QordD Bur
leigh, was dying. Mr.. Lord left for Great
Falls by the midnight train.
THE store in the post-oflice building for,
merly occupied by w. Il. Vail and made va
cant by the removal of G. A. Best, who
afterwards purchased the stock, is being